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The City of Vancouver has come under intense public criticism for allowing thousands of character homes to be demolished in the on-going real estate boom. Three years ago it brought in a “heritage action plan” to try and save character homes, but older homes continue to come down at a rapid clip. So the city […]

The swing riding of Vancouver-South is once again Liberal after being recaptured by candidate Harjit Sajjan, who defeated Tory incumbent Wai Young in Monday’s federal election. Dozens of Sajjan’s supporters packed the Ross Street South Hall in southeast Vancouver to await results. By 7:30 p.m., a Liberal majority government was called, prompting loud cheers and claps.

Was Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, right about American men — a century ago? In 1912, when the groundbreaking psychologist took a ship to the U.S., he was taken aback by the way husbands acted around wives.

Vancouver park board is willing to enlist the help of vaunted mediator Vince Ready to solve a long-running dispute over the control of the city’s community centres, board chairman Aaron Jasper said Monday. Though the board hasn’t had any contact with Ready, staff would gladly sit down with the mediator and representatives of six “dissident” community centre associations (CCAs), which had reportedly reached out to Ready, Jasper said.

Vancouver’s Killarney neighbourhood will hold a rally Saturday to speak out against the Vancouver park board’s forced eviction of their community society. The move comes as the park board was ordered to cease and desist its activities around its plans to terminate Killarney and five other community societies until an injunction is heard Nov. 18, according to Trevor Boudreau, spokesman for the community centres’ counsel.

The legal battle between six rogue community centre associations and the Vancouver park board is on pause for the next ten days as they await a decision from the B.C. Supreme Court on an injunction application against the board.

They are odd combatants — the oppressor, a supposedly draconian Vancouver park board, and the oppressed, six seemingly victimized community associations. Similarly, you wouldn’t think a sensible universal access card for recreational programs and classes in city facilities — the OneCard scheme — would ignite such a legal donnybrook.

The Vancouver park board clashed with community centre associations Tuesday morning at the B.C. Supreme Court as six rogue associations sought an injunction to continue business as normal in the face of an attempt by the board to take control of their operations.

The Vancouver park board says it will take over control of the city’s six rogue community centres at the end of this year, as their volunteer-run associations continue to refuse to implement the universal OneCard plan or renegotiate their operating agreements with the board. Last week the six associations filed a B.C. Supreme Court injunction to stop the implementation of the system-wide OneCard access program, which gave the park board “no alternative but to cease doing business with them,” chair Sarah Blyth said in a statement Thursday.

Although their kings and queens don't come cheap and today are only figureheads, most Brits seem to thoroughly enjoy having a royal family. The country joyously celebrated the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis, who is in line to become the country’s 43rd monarch since the Norman Conquest.

The stereotypical concept of living in the suburbs likely includes big-box stores stretching for kilometres without end, having to hop in the car to get anywhere, or, horrors!, being deprived of ready access to sushi.

The city manager's refusal to allow a motion to consider the financial risks if the Vancouver park board continues with its planned reorganization was illegal and an abuse of power, municipal lawyer Jonathan Baker said at a press conference Tuesday morning.

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